I don’t understand this album. I’m sure it displays some kind of artistry through the craft of beeps and boops but I’m not hearing any of it.
At first, I thought the songs were just really long. I kept waiting for this build-up of tension to release into a crescendo of musicality. When it finally happened, I realized I had come to the end of the album and that was it, there was no more; YouTube autoplayed me another bland electronic song. Each track of After Hours is an unsophisticated, meandering transition into the next.
In terms of genre, I have absolutely no frame of reference from which to place the style of this music. It’s not techno, it’s not dubstep, it might be something in between. If you took all the sound effect tracks on a cheap keyboard and looped them you would get After Hours.
The music doesn’t go anywhere, and if it does, via its funky robot sounds, it certainly doesn’t take you with it. Don’t listen to it.
